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For the 11th year in a row, the Sabin Vaccine Institute has received Charity Navigator's highest rating. Charity Navigator awarded Sabin a 4-star rating for "demonstrating strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency" in 2016, according to a letter from the organization. Only 1 percent of nonprofits evaluated by Charity Navigator have received at least 11 consecutive 4-star evaluations.

Each year since 1994 the Sabin Vaccine Institute has recognized distinguished members of the scientific community with its highest honor, the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award. Gold Medal Award winners have made significant contributions to vaccinology or a complementary field.

Albert B Sabin is probably best known for his work and research on the polio virus. During World War II he worked on and developed vaccines for encephalitis (sleeping sickness), sand-fly fever and dengue fever as well. It is his work into dengue fever during this time that is now having possible implications for vaccine development today — 60 years later.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) are launching a new initiative to support the latest WHO World Health Report by encouraging authors to submit articles that substantiate the WHO's message, that research is essential for better